Improvement in apparatus for feeding hydrocarbons to furnaces



c. E. ROBINSON. Apparatus for Feeding Hydrocarbons to Furna ces.

N0. l58,315. Pa tented Dec.29,1874.

THE GRAPHIC CD. Pi'lOT0-L\TH.39& 4-K PARK PLACEAHY.

CHARLES H. ROBINSON, on NEW YORK, N. Y, ASSIGNOR TO IMSELF AND GEORGE M. CHURCH, OF SAME rLAeE.

PATET QFFIOE.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING HYDROCARBONS T0 FURNACES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 58,315, dated December 29, 1874; application filed December 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,-GHARLES E. ROBINSON, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improved Oil-Burning Apparatus, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to apparatus for burning petroleum Or other hydrocarbon oils as fuel for generating steam in a boiler, or for other purposes; and it consists in the combination of the various parts of the apparatus by which the supply-tank is charged with oil from the reservoir, the oil heated by Steam in the supply-tank, and thence forced by steampressure to an atomizer, where, mixed with steam, it enters the furnace of the boiler, as will be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawing, which represents a longitinlinal section of the said apparatus.

A is the oil-reservoir, and B is the Oil-supply tank. These I prefer to make in one and the same vessel, separated only by a partition, 0. D is the Oil-supply pipe, with cock (1 for the reservoir A. E is a steam-pipe, with cock 0 for introducing steam for forcing the Oil from the reservoir A into the supplytank B against the stean'i-pressure in the latfor, as will be further described. a, with cock is a branch pipe to E for the exhaust of steam from the reservoir A. b is a glass gage for observing the level of the oil in the reservoir A. c is a valve at the bottom of the reservoir, and operated from the outside, to let the oil flow into the supply-tank B. F is a steam-coil placed in the supply-tank B, with inlet at f and outlet at f, for heating the oil to better induce its atomization. G is K, with the cock 7c, is a steam-pipe surrounding the oil-pipe 1', during a portion of its passage to the atomizer J, in order to reheat the oil. In the atomizer J the steam-pipe K again surrounds the oil-pipe even to the nozzle of the atomizer, where the oil and steam commingle before issuing from the atomizer into the fireplace of a boiler, L, partly shown in the drawmg.

To fill the reservoir with oil, through pipe D, shut first the cock 6 of the steam pipe E and open the cook a of the branch pipe a to allow the steam in the reservoir to escape. The cocks d and a being closed, and the cooks c and h being opened to furnish an equal steam-pressure in both tanks, it is only necessary, for charging the supply-tank B, to open the valve 0, when the oil will flow into the latter tank until the oil-surface in both stands at the same level, the height of which is observed in the glass gage I). The oil heated by the steameoil F is forced, by the pressure of the steam from the pipe H, through the pipe I into the atomizer J, where, issuing with the velocity due to the pressure, it meets a steam jet from the surrounding pipe K, and thus, effectually atomized and thoroughly mixed with the steam, is burned as fuel in the furnace of the boiler L.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let: ters Patent, is

The combination of the reservoirv A, provided with the pipes D E 61. valve 0, and gage b, and the supply-tank B, heated by the steam-coil F, and provided with the pipes H I, with the steam-pipe K and atomizer J, substantiall y as and for the purpose specified.

CHAS. E. ROBINSON. Witnesses:

I GEO. M. CHURCH,

G. H. RICHARDSON. 

